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On Board "George Henry"
Friday May 23d 1862 VI PM
[[in blue ink: encircled 1]]
[[boxed note in blue ink]]
For May 19th = 20th
see onward
[[/boxed note in blue ink]]
[[underlined]] Et quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum est. [[/underlined]] - "The active should occasionally rest , & the inactive should apply to labor."
Seneca of olden days spoke on [[strikethrough]] ?with [[/strikethrough]] wrote that [[strikethrough]] ?homilly in when [[/strikethrough]] the above sentiment.  [[strikethrough]] I was not first.   [[/strikethrough]].  "the mind as well as the body requires alternate action & repose".  ^[[This]] is a truism, on wh I have experience most sensiboly in my late sledge trip up Bay of Frobisher & since my return.  Not until my return have I found repose for Mind, Many days have elapsed since making use of old friend, the pen.  I welcome it back for I [[strikethrough]]?[[strikethrough]] have something in way of history of events for it to record
On turning over 8 leaves of this journal (one willo see that mutilation of the journal-book has commenced.  I regret the necessity  that demanded it.  Being out of proper not books for penciling while on my daily sledge explorations, I was obliged to bring this into use.  That the  pencilings might not be erased (or indeed they were liable to be) I cut out the leaves as I filled them.  This accounts for the evident work of [[underlined]] Book-destruction [[/underlined]].
My arrival back to ship was on the Morning of Wednesday May 21st.  [[strikethrough]] since [[/strikethrough]] On my leaving place of 10th & 19th Enc. such a practice [[?followed]] to my long [[?tortured]] mind that ^[[I felt]] as if
Nature had taken me in charge & placed me in Her bosom of repose.

Transcription Notes:
Rough Google translation: The rest must be efficient and quiet. At this point in the journal there is date and page number confusion. Hall writes that he was short of paper and "cut out the leaves." Here is the date sequence of the journal pages: 157, 5/23/62; 158, 5/20/62; 159, 5/20/82; 160, 5/20/82; 161, 5/18/82; 162, 5/19/82; 163, ?; 164, 5/23/82; 165 - 167, 5/7/82; 168 -170, 5/5/82; 171, 5/4/82; etc.